A comprehensive collection of Photoshop tutorials covering various techniques, tips, and tricks to enhance your skills and creativity.
Today, Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV will show us how to create a text effect that looks burnt onto a wood background, similar to a branding, using Photoshop. This tutorial is extremely detailed, loaded with useful techniques, and very easy to follow. Marty guides you through the steps to...
Adobe Photoshop offers a lot of ways to apply color effects to your images. But maybe the Gradient Map adjustment layer is the most flexible and easy to use of them all. With this tool you can apply one of the many great sample gradients provided by Adobe in the...
In this tutorial, Lee Varis presents a unique approach to skin smoothing in Photoshop. While the technique might seem non-intuitive at first, it is straightforward and accessible for intermediate users. Even beginners can take advantage of this method, as it doesn't require advanced retouching skills. Lee Varis guides...
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to give a grunge dirty retro photo effect to any image in a quick and easy way. For this matter we are going to use the awesome Perfect Effects Free Edition Photoshop plugin, which is, by the way, absolutely free. 👁️This...
From Cosmic Pop art in the 60’s to neo Expressionism today, the colorful artworks of Peter Max have become an important part of the popular American culture. This tutorial is inspired in his works from the late 60’s, know as the Cosmic style that made him famous worldwide....
Struggling to capture the artistic flair of oil paintings with your digital photos? Look no further! This short and sweet Photoshop tutorial, clocking in at just 90 seconds, will show you how to use the Mixer Brush to transform your photos into captivating works of art. The instructor, Jesus Ramirez...
The introduction of digital cameras has revolutionized photography. Gone are the days when quality relied solely on film development services, which often meant dealing with color errors or issues like expired rolls or light leaks. Nowadays, these concerns are virtually eliminated, allowing photographers to focus on creativity rather than technical...
Toy cameras are fun to play around with but most of them take 120 film and for a quick experiment, processing 120 film can get pricey. Also, toy cameras are quite unpredictable. More often than not, you don’t know what will come out of them nor can you get...
In this tutorial, Julianne Kost will delve into an often-overlooked yet highly versatile tool in Photoshop CS5—the Art History Brush. This tool, which utilizes history states and snapshots, allows users to transform their images into stunning painterly effects. Julianne emphasizes that while the default settings of the Art History...
Back in the day, when one would print their own black and white prints, you had a choice of a zillion different papers. They basically boiled down to cooltone and warmtone papers. This combined with different developers gave one an array of tones to choose from for any given picture....
Bleach bypass is a photo effect used very often in the movie industry. It has been used in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report and many others. To achieve this effect, filmmakers either partially or completely skip bleaching during the processing of a color film giving as a...
Autochrome was a color positive transparency process developed by Lumiere in 1907 and used by such photography greats as Edward steichen and alfred stieglitz, just to name a few. The process consisted in coating a glass plate with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed red, green...
Embraced by the lo-fi photography movement and toy camera fanatics, redscale film consists in exposing photographic film from the wrong side. In other words, the emulsion is exposed through the base of the film which acts as a red-orange filter. The resulting colors range from bright red shadows, orange midtones...
Ever wanted to shoot Polaroid again but can´t seem to find any film for that old dusty polaroid camera in your father´s basement? Well, in this tutorial I´ll show you how you can achieve that old faded Polaroid look in a snap using Photoshop´s Curves Adjustments....
X-pro (short for cross-processing) is basically developing your film in the wrong chemicals. If you are shooting color negative film you develop it with E6 (chemicals for slide film) and you will get slides. If you´re shooting slide film, you develop it with C-41 (chemicals for color negative film)...
The Fileteado is a popular decorative art form typically used in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the beginning of the 20th century. It was, and still is, usually applied to almost anything from signs, leaderboards, objects, trucks and buses, to mention a few. It is mainly composed of a text element,...
In this tutorial I’m going to show you what I do when a scene has too much unwanted color and how to emphasize a part of the scene with just a bit of a color to draw attention. Try to find a picture with bright colors or a subject...
This tutorial by Aaron Nace from Phlearn provides practical guidance on removing color casts caused by colored lights in Photoshop. If you've ever faced the challenge of an image where one light source disrupts the overall color balance, this tutorial will be helpful. You will learn step-by-step techniques...
This Photoshop tutorial by Abduzeedo guides you through the process of creating a striking and dynamic 3D water text effect. The tutorial breaks down what may seem like a complex technique into manageable steps, making it accessible for users at any skill level. You will start by using the new...
Naman Tuts shows you how to recreate the iconic 80s VHS text effect using Photoshop. This tutorial will guide you to achieve that vintage look reminiscent of old VHS movies we used to watch repeatedly. You'll discover how to set up your text with the perfect font and...
A few weeks back, you experienced the adventure of watching "Clash of the Titans." As the movie concluded and the credits rolled, its impressive visual effects left a lasting impression. Inspired by the movie's striking posters and artwork, a desire to create a unique text effect...
HDR (High Dinamic Range) images are created using multiple photographs, each captured at a different exposure. It may happen you didn’t have the chance of shooting more than one image.. don’t worry, even if you haven’t got what’s needed to create a real HDR image, you...
This tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful and simple fractal image based on a flower. This is actually impossible with Photoshop’s standard plugins, so we are going to use the stunning Fractal Explorer free filter that is run using the Pixel Bender plugin. 👁️This is an...
This guide features 27 beautiful photo effects, including fire effects, multiple exposure, levitation, sketch, lighting effects, and various other photo manipulation techniques. These examples can be applied to your photos or designs, enhancing their visual appeal. While most of these tutorials require an intermediate knowledge of Photoshop, beginners will also...
